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Annihilate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.

    "An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city."

  2. 2
    kill in large numbers wordnet
  3. 3
    To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos). particle
  4. 4
    To treat as worthless, to vilify. archaic

    "of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us."

  5. 5
    To render null and void; to abrogate. transitive
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  1. 6
    To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin annihilātus, perfect passive participle of annihilō (“to reduce to nothing”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

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